Author: Robin L. Rielly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Beretter om den amerikanske flådes LCS(L) landgangsfartøjer, som blev benyttet under kampene i Stillehavet under 2. Verdenskrig. Bogen fortæller om udviklingen af landgangsfartøjerne og deres tjeneste i Stillehavskrigen såvel som i tiden efter 2. Verdenskrig, hvor flere LCS(L) endte i andre nationers flåder og bl.a. blev benyttet af den franske flåde under Vietnamkrigen.
Mighty Midgets at War
Author: Robin L. Rielly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Beretter om den amerikanske flådes LCS(L) landgangsfartøjer, som blev benyttet under kampene i Stillehavet under 2. Verdenskrig. Bogen fortæller om udviklingen af landgangsfartøjerne og deres tjeneste i Stillehavskrigen såvel som i tiden efter 2. Verdenskrig, hvor flere LCS(L) endte i andre nationers flåder og bl.a. blev benyttet af den franske flåde under Vietnamkrigen.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Beretter om den amerikanske flådes LCS(L) landgangsfartøjer, som blev benyttet under kampene i Stillehavet under 2. Verdenskrig. Bogen fortæller om udviklingen af landgangsfartøjerne og deres tjeneste i Stillehavskrigen såvel som i tiden efter 2. Verdenskrig, hvor flere LCS(L) endte i andre nationers flåder og bl.a. blev benyttet af den franske flåde under Vietnamkrigen.
At War With The Wind:
Author: David Sears
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0806535962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare. In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as “suiciders”; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. Acclaimed author David Sears draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a narrative of war that is stunning in its vividness and unforgettable in its revelations. This is the candid story of a war within a war—a relentless series of furious and violent engagements pitting men determined to die against men determined to live. Its echoes resonate hauntingly at a time of global conflict, especially when suicide as a weapon remains a perplexing and terrifying reality. Main Selection of the Military Book Club Featured Alternate of the History Book Club
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0806535962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare. In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as “suiciders”; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. Acclaimed author David Sears draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a narrative of war that is stunning in its vividness and unforgettable in its revelations. This is the candid story of a war within a war—a relentless series of furious and violent engagements pitting men determined to die against men determined to live. Its echoes resonate hauntingly at a time of global conflict, especially when suicide as a weapon remains a perplexing and terrifying reality. Main Selection of the Military Book Club Featured Alternate of the History Book Club
Mighty Midget
Author: John A. Rooney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Mighty Midgets
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mighty Midgets
Author: John Frederick Moyes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Midget submarines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Midget submarines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Mighty Midgets A.B.C. Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
American Amphibious Gunboats in World War II
Author: Robin L. Rielly
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660214X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660214X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.
Midgets in the Seats of the Mighty
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
Author: Robin L. Rielly
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1935149911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The untold story of ferocious air and naval combat during the WWII Battle of Okinawa—drawn from primary sources and survivor interviews. This is the story of an overlooked yet significant aerial and naval battle during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945. While losses to America’s main fleet are well recorded, less well known is the terrific battle waged on the radar picket line, the fleet’s outer defense against Japanese marauders. Weaving together the experiences of the ships and their crews—drawn from ship and aircraft action reports, ship logs, and personal interviews—historian Robin L. Reilly recounts one of the most ferocious air and naval battles in history. The US fleet—and its accompanying airpower—was so massive that the Japanese could only rely on suicide attacks to inflict critical damage. Of the 206 ships that served on radar picket duty, twenty-nine percent were sunk or damaged by Japanese air attacks, making theirs the most hazardous naval surface duty in World War II. The great losses were largely due to relentless kamikaze attacks, but also resulted from the improper use of support gunboats, failure to establish land-based radar at the earliest possible time, the assignment of ships ill-equipped for picket duty, and, as time went on, crew fatigue. US air cover during the battle is also described in full, as squadrons dashed from their carriers and land bases to intercept the Japanese swarms, resulting in constant melees over the fleet.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1935149911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The untold story of ferocious air and naval combat during the WWII Battle of Okinawa—drawn from primary sources and survivor interviews. This is the story of an overlooked yet significant aerial and naval battle during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945. While losses to America’s main fleet are well recorded, less well known is the terrific battle waged on the radar picket line, the fleet’s outer defense against Japanese marauders. Weaving together the experiences of the ships and their crews—drawn from ship and aircraft action reports, ship logs, and personal interviews—historian Robin L. Reilly recounts one of the most ferocious air and naval battles in history. The US fleet—and its accompanying airpower—was so massive that the Japanese could only rely on suicide attacks to inflict critical damage. Of the 206 ships that served on radar picket duty, twenty-nine percent were sunk or damaged by Japanese air attacks, making theirs the most hazardous naval surface duty in World War II. The great losses were largely due to relentless kamikaze attacks, but also resulted from the improper use of support gunboats, failure to establish land-based radar at the earliest possible time, the assignment of ships ill-equipped for picket duty, and, as time went on, crew fatigue. US air cover during the battle is also described in full, as squadrons dashed from their carriers and land bases to intercept the Japanese swarms, resulting in constant melees over the fleet.
The Mighty Midgets
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description